Harvester (forestry)

Harvester, type of heavy vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging operations for felling, delimbing and bucking trees. A harvesters are typically employed together with a forwarder that hauls the logs to a roadside landing.

Harvestors were mainly developed in Sweden and Finland and today does practically all of the commercial felling in these countries.

The first single grip harvestor was introduced in the early eighties by Swedish company SP Maskiner .

The approximetely equivalent type of vehicle in full-tree logging systems are feller-bunchers.